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Sep 23, 1899 Dallas, Texas, United States Died on 13 Jun 1977 (aged 77)
United States federal judge
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About Tom C. Clark
- Thomas Campbell Clark (September 23, 1899 – June 13, 1977) was an American lawyer who served as the 59th United States Attorney General from 1945 to 1949.
- He was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1949 to 1967.Born in Dallas, Texas, Clark graduated from the University of Texas School of Law after serving in World War I.
- He practiced law in Dallas until 1937, when he accepted a position in the United States Department of Justice.
- After Harry S.
- Truman became President of the United States in 1945, he chose Clark as his Attorney General.
- In 1949, Truman successfully nominated Clark to fill the Supreme Court vacancy caused by the death of Associate Justice Frank Murphy.
- Clark remained on the court until his retirement in 1967, and was succeeded by Thurgood Marshall.
- Clark retired so that his son, Ramsey Clark, could assume the position of Attorney General. Clark served on the Vinson Court and the Warren Court.
- He voted with the Court's majority in the several cases concerning racial segregation, including the landmark case of Brown v.
- Board of Education.
- He wrote the majority opinion in landmark Mapp v.
- Ohio, which ruled that the Fourth Amendment prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment.
- He also wrote the majority opinion in Heart of Atlanta Motel v.
- United States, which upheld the public accommodations provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the majority opinions in Garner v.
- Board of Public Works, Joseph Burstyn, Inc.
- v.
- Wilson, and Abington School District v.
- Schempp.
